... a speaker utterance (see for a discussion of prediction at multiple levels of representation). Much like other psycholinguistic experiments, our tasks take place in a restricted world where the set of possible referents (and by extension, the set of possible utterances that a speaker is likely...

...L. Kathleen Oliver; Timmie Li; Jonathan J. Harley; Karin R. Humphreys; Rolf Zwaan; Valentina Bambini Psycholinguistic and metacognition researchers mostly disagree on what constitutes a tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state. Psycholinguists argue that TOT states occur when there is a transmission...

... psycholinguistics eye-tracking pragmatics scalar implicature A substantial part of language comprehension is inferring messages that were not explicitly said. One of the most intensely investigated types of such inferences is scalar inference , whereby a speaker uttering a weaker or less informative...